John wiley sons jan 2004 (81 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'If you are a salesperson, you will find yourself in this book. Treat it like your road map to success and you will be a professional salesperson.' - Willis Turner, CSE President, Sales and Marketing Executives International, Inc. 'This action-oriented book covers the best practices of top sales performers in all critical areas. The lessons are easy to learn and they will help you forge more rewarding customer relationships, a higher income, and a richer career satisfaction. A must-read for any salesperson who wants to improve and reach the next level of success.' - Gerhard Gschwandtner, founder and Publisher, Selling Power magazine 'As a professor teaching MBA students for twenty years, I encourage everyone in management to make this required reading for their sales teams.' - Dr. Michael Russell, Chairman of the Marketing Dept., St. Bonaventure University 'Each page is full of ideas for instant sales and commissions!' - Anthony Parinello, author of Secrets of VITO: Think and Sell Like a CEO.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A half-century of Wall Street history as seen through the lives of its most illustrious familyThis compelling new narrative from bestselling author John Rothchild tells the story of three generations of the legendary Davis family, who rank among the most successful investors in the history of the Street. With a novelist's wit and eye for telling detail, Rothchild chronicles the financial escapades of this eccentric, pioneering clan, providing a vivid portrait of fifty years of Wall Street history along the way. Rothchild shadows the Davis family's holdings through two lengthy bull markets, two savage and seven mild bear markets, one crash, and twenty-five corrections and, in the process, reveals the strategies behind the family's uncanny ability to consistently beat the markets.The Davis Dynasty begins in 1947, the year Shelby Davis quit his job as a state bureaucrat and, armed with $50,000 of his wife's money, took the plunge into stock investing. By the time he died in 1994, he had multiplied his wife's original stake 8,000 times! The story continues with his son, Shelby, who established one of the most successful funds of the past thirty years. The final characters in this enthralling family saga are grandsons Chris and Andrew. Both surrendered to the Davis family passion for investing and both went on to earn reputations as investment luminaries in their own right.John Rothchild (Miami Beach, FL) co-wrote the blockbusters One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street, and Learn to Earn with Peter Lynch. He is the author of Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets (Wiley: 0-471-34882-1), A Fool and His Money (Wiley: 0-471-25138-0), and Going for Broke. He has written for Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and other leading magazines and he has appeared on the Today Show, the Nightly Business Report, and CNBC.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bestselling author Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a networkInternationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build secure systems. This practical guide provides readers with a better understanding of why protecting information is harder in the digital world, what they need to know to protect digital information, how to assess business and corporate security needs, and much more.\* Walks the reader through the real choices they have now for digital security and how to pick and choose the right one to meet their business needs\* Explains what cryptography can and can't do in achieving digital security. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought.\* Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history.\* Reveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thought.\* Sketches the 'ripple effects' of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War.\* Shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a whole.\* Considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalism.\* Challenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic.Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.Features authoritative readings of key works, ranging from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho .Considers recurrent concerns of the Gothic such as persecution and paranoia, key motifs such as the haunted castle, and figures such as the vampire and the monster.Includes a chronology of key Gothic texts, including fiction and film from the 1760s to the present day, and a comprehensive bibliography.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical guide to the 2002 NEC As an electrician, your interest in the NEC is application specific. You need the parts that relate to your job, clearly organized so you can find what you need, and geared to what you do. This book is the 2002 NEC for the installer, with easy-to-follow chapter headings to help you find important information quickly, and explanations that make sense. You'll want it with you on every job. \* Find those parts of the NEC that matter to your job - nothing more \* Understand all general and basic requirements \* Identify specific standards for multiple buildings sharing service \* Know the rules regarding surge arrestors, grounding connections for AC systems, and grounding for separately derived systems \* Review the requirements for wiring in all types of cable and conduit \* Look into code requirements for specialized applications like hospitals, motion picture studios and theaters, RV parks, and swimming pools.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This core text provides an excellent concise introduction to infectious diseases. The book integrates basic science with clinical practice with disease-orientated descriptions and clinical presentations on a system-by-system basis. It is therefore ideal for both the student and the practitioner.For this new sixth edition the text has been brought fully up to date throughout. The highly structured and improved text is designed to facilitate easy access to information, making the book an ideal resource for clinical attachments and revision. There is a new chapter that covers infections in special groups, as well as coverage of sepsis and septic shock. The Introductory chapter also takes into account new control measures, emerging infections, and infections linked with bioterrorism. Information on global occurrence is added to the epidemiology sections where relevant and web site information has been included to provide up-to-date resources on fast moving topics such as AIDS, and travel-related infections such as SARS.The result is a text that is a compact yet comprehensive guide to infectious diseases. It will appeal to medical students, junior doctors, general practitioners, and allied health professionals who want a concise introduction to the subject or an ideal revision companion.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This reader brings together classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.A collection of classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.Includes classic discussions of justice by Locke and Hume.Provides broad coverage of contemporary discussions, including theoretical pieces by John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin.Contains papers that apply theories of justice to concrete issues, such as gender and the family, the market, world poverty, cultural rights, and future generations.Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rapid Infectious Diseases is the fourth book to appear in the Rapid series. Each book is designed for short revision covering key facts in a simple and memorable fashion, using well-thought out mnemonics to aid recall This new text provides students in the run-up to exams with a comprehensive review of possible causes for symptoms and conditions as well as the key facts of around 100 diseases, following the Rapid mnemonic. There will also be an appendix giving details of immunisations as well as a list of Further Reading and useful web sites. Clinical students working on Emergency Medicine and General Practice attachments will find this book extremely useful. It may also interest those planning electives abroad. Junior doctors and GPs will find this a handy resource for quick access to information on the symptoms and diseases they may encounter in the clinical setting.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by a mother whose daughter suffers from an eating disorder, Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa is a supportive, helpful guide for families of those with eating disorders. Framed by the personal story of Gráinne Smith and her daughter, the book describes the onset and symptoms of the two disorders, as well as the typical situations family and caregivers can expect on the long road to helping the sufferer to recover. Readers will learn about the effects on family life, in particular the common feelings of isolation and helplessness, and get strategies for coping and finding more information and assistance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Mathematica Technology Resource Manual, authored by Jennifer Switkes of California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, consists of tutorials that deal directly with the Mathematica computing situations that students may encounter as they work on homework problems from the text.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores the origins of Japan's current economic crisis and assesses the country's prospects for recovery.An exploration of the origins and consequences of Japan's current economic crisis.Examines the collapse of the equity and real estate market bubbles in the late 1980s.Analyses the failure of Japanese monetary and fiscal policies to reverse the ensuing economic decline.Evaluates unorthodox options available to policy makers that might enable Japan to recover from its 'lost decade'.Suggests that Japan's prospects for economic recovery are still uncertain.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together papers by some of the leading figures working on virtue-theoretic accounts in both ethics and epistemology.A collection of cutting edge articles by leading figures in the field of virtue theory including Guy Axtell, Julia Driver, Antony Duff and Miranda Fricker.The first book to combine papers on both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.Deals with key topics in recent epistemological and ethical debate. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory is an anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century.An anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century.Introduces students to the variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies, and modes of argument in Shakespeare criticism over the last 50 years.Critical views represented range from the old style historicism of E.M.W. Tillyard and the new criticism of William Empson to the new historicism of Stephen Greenblatt and the feminist perspective of Catherine Belsey.Pieces are organised into categories of critical thought and introduced in clear language.Most pieces are reproduced in their entirety.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and racialized violence. - Brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary global race discourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography. - Explores the local and national meanings of a race riot in Australia and the entrenched racial binary evident in everyday relationships. - Raises questions about history, memory, citizenship, respect, and abjection as means of considering the politics, social science, and psychology of race rivalry and indigenous marginality. - Written by a prominent scholar with clarity, verve, and accessibility both for beginners and those well-versed in contemporary debates.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This text introduces students to the key issues in the study of childhood, from infancy through to adulthood, from an interdisciplinary and multi-professional perspective.A broad-ranging introductory guide to key issues in the study of childhood.Approaches childhood studies from an interdisciplinary and multi-professional perspective.Presents the basics of psychology, social welfare, education, health, law, culture, rights, politics, and economics as they relate to children.For each discipline, the role of relevant professionals, such as social workers, nursery teachers, paediatric nurses and child lawyers, is also considered.Contributors have both practical and academic backgrounds in a range of specialist areas.Each chapter includes an independent learning activity, case studies, a glossary and annotated bibliography.Will inspire debate in the classroom about childhood issues.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The hardcover, fully updated edition of the only multi-craft trade guide Respected by generations of skilled workers, Audel Millwright's and Mechanic's Guide is the only trade manual to cover maintenance and troubleshooting for all the mechanical trades in a single volume. Now available in hardcover, it covers the newest equipment on shop floors as well as older machinery, sometimes more than 30 years old, for which little maintenance and repair information remains available. Millwrights, mechanics, machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, engineers, and those who supervise them will find this book invaluable. - The only hardcover maintenance and repair manual to cover all the mechanical trades in one guide - This updated guide covers new industrial machinery as well as 30-year-old equipment for which little information can be found - Essential for those who repair machinery as well as machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, millwrights, mechanics, engineers, mechanical technicians, industrial maintenance managers, and construction tradespeople This hardcover edition of Audel Millwright's and Mechanic's Guide is as valuable to today's skilled workers as previous editions were to their fathers and grandfathers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. - - A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. - Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel. - Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction - Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists. - Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. - Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of modern fiction.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day. - Brings together for the first time both classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on such electrifying contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship. - Draws on the editors' complementary areas of expertise to offer readers a single-volume survey of the most important and critical work on kinship. - Includes extensive discussion and analysis of the selections that contextualizes them within theoretical debates.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The study of the interplay between the individual self and collective selves is an arena of rich theory and research in social psychology.Self and Social Identity is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine how group memberships shape the content of the individual's self concept and how the sense of self is expanded as a consequence of identification with other individuals and the group as a whole.Collects readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology and includes introductions by two world-renowned researchers.Provides a sampling of exciting research and theory that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup.Organized around two broad themes, 'self and identity' and 'group identities' and designed for course use.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At last, a book about the little pieces of occupation which make up life' s real situations and experiences and form a basis for therapy. Offered in the form of stories about practice previously published in the popular US publication Advance for Occupational Therapy Practitioners, this enjoyable book presents occupational therapists as 'masters of the mundane.' Therapists, students and educators will find this easy to read text a useful tool in guiding clinical approaches to therapy. Accompanied by theoretical papers by Dr. Estelle Breines and colleagues previously published in refereed international journals, these stories will aid the reader in understanding principles of active occupation that guide practice and shed light on how these ideas can be applied to the education of therapists.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Applied Social Psychology is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the applications of social psychological theory and research in various domains of personal, institutional, and societal well-being.Collects readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology and includes introductions by two world-renowned researchers.Examines the applications of social psychological theory and research in various domains of personal, institutional, and societal well-being.Illustrates how social psychological analyses of individual, interpersonal, and group level processes have contributed to important areas of applied psychology.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hedge funds have rightly gained the attention of private and institutional investors in recent years, proving themselves as useful portfolio diversifiers and preservers of wealth while greatly dispelling their reputation as an 'unsafe' investment. Yet investors attempting to navigate in the field of hedge funds face significant challenges: the large number of funds, the diversity of strategies used, the range of financial instruments traded, and the various formats for investing. Pooling multiple hedge funds together into one vehicle, the fund of funds provides a ready solution, combining professional management expertise with asset allocation. In this book--the first of its kind--industry expert Joseph Nicholas shows investors how these funds operate, the benefits and risks, and the criteria and due diligence to utilize when selecting funds. Nicholas provides an in-depth analysis of historical fund performance and offers unique insight into the industry and trends that may affect its evolution. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Hedge Fund of Funds Investing is an essential resource for serious investors.…

Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Board Member's Playbook--written for board members who are either familiar with or new to John Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance model--offers real-world scenarios that address the challenges that confront boards of all types of organizations. Step by step, the authors walk readers through a proven problem-solving sequence that allows them to find solutions consistent with the values and policies of their organizations. Designed to be flexible, the book's problem-solving methods are applicable to any challenge boards may face.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Sixth Edition helps readers understand the interrelationships among basic physics concepts and how they fit together to describe our physical world. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the relevance of physics to our everyday lives.Real-world physics applications, including many biomedical applications, show how physics principles come into play over and over again in our lives.Problem Solving Insights explain each calculation in detail, guiding readers through the quantitative processIncludes a CD containing physics simulations.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From amusement park rides to critical environmental issues such as energy generation-physics affects almost every aspect of our world. In PHYSICS MATTERS, James Trefil and Robert Hazen examine the fundamental physics principles at work behind the many practical applications that fuel our society and individual lives. Their goal is to promote a deeper understanding of how the great ideas of physics connect to form a much larger understanding of the universe in which we live.HighlightsHelps readers build a general knowledge of key ideas in physics and their connection to technology and other areas of science.Promotes an appreciation of what science is, how scientific knowledge is developed, and how it differs from other intellectual activities.Examines modern technologies, including GPS, the Internet, and information technologies, as well as medical technologies, such as MRI, PET scans, CAT scans, and radioisotope tracers.Explores key issues facing the world today, such as global warning, nuclear waste, and government funding for research.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science contains sixteen original essays by leading authors in the philosophy of science, each one defending the affirmative or negative answer to one of eight specific questions, including: Are there laws of social science Are causes physically connected to their effects Is the mind a system of modules shaped by natural selection Brings together fresh debates on eight of the most controversial issues in the philosophy of science.Questions addressed include: 'Are there laws of social science '; 'Are causes physically connected to their effects '; 'Is the mind a system of modules shaped by natural selection 'Each question is treated by a pair of opposing essays written by eminent scholars, and especially commissioned for the volume.Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion.Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in contemporary philosophy of science, whilst also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural Diversity: Its Social Psychology shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and multiculturalism. - Shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and cultural diversity. - Helps readers to understand the processes that have shaped modern societies and the diversity issues they are facing. - Reviews research into the socio-psychological factors facilitating or hindering the emergence of plural societies. - Focuses on intergroup relationships - what happens when people migrate, how they adapt, and what changes are produced by their presence. - The issues discussed are contextualised within the traditional accounts of the nation-state, European integration and North American and Australian experiences. - Student-friendly features include boxes, summaries, lists of key words, suggestions for further reading and a glossary. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Outlining the challenges of working in a multi-disciplinary context, this book provides key theoretical cocepts and describes how to conduct joint assessments and design, deliver and evaluate interventions. Taking a life-span approach to working with children of all ages from infant to adolescents, the key emphasis of the book is on the prevention of children's emotional and behavioural difficulties through effective interdisciplinary working.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book identifies, defines and explains in detail property-related environmental issues. It is written in an easy-to-follow style and presented in a lively format. Issues are explained with reference to relevant background information, practical issues and problems posed. The book is supported by current case studies, and there is learning material - with model answers - for students and lecturers to use for group work. Each topic - e.g. law, economics, property development - is structured in the same way: headline - the big issues and important questions; background - historical, legislative, technical; practical problems and solutions; discussion points; case studies; sources of information/further study.…